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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of these comments make no sense.

Blair wasn't on top of the list.  The data about Blair on the top of SATs were for White (aka. CAUCASIAN) students from table A.8, so it is very interesting that someone only thinks in those terms?  Even then Blair Whites were not top of the list.  They were actually fifth.

#1 Poolesville - Asian 1420
#2 Poolesville - Black or African American 1380
#3 BCC - Two or More Races 1341
#4 Walt Whitman - Two or More Races 1334
#5 Montgomery Blair - Whites 1326

The "Percent of Students Meeting University System of Maryland Entrance Requirements" were not who actually got into college (which is normally a lower percentage), but who were qualified to go to college.  Big difference and it's a much better indicator of whether the student body as a whole is college ready and whether the HS did right by the students.

11.2% of the student body are Special Ed at WJ.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04424.pdf
What we don't know is what percentage of Spec Ed students did or did not meet UofMd admission requirements.

Besides, several HS have programs. QO, Churchill, Wootton are successful.  WJ (Asperger), Kennedy (Autism Resource), Magruder (Autism), QO (Aspergers), Rockville (Autism), Churchill (Autism), Watkins Mill (Autism Resource), Wootton (Autism)

For example:

Churchill has 10% SpecEd
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04602.pdf

Quince Orchard 9.5% SpecEd
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04125.pdf

Blair 7.7% SpecEd
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

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Some special ed kids have greater needs than others.[/quote]

Absolutely correct.  But someone was implying that the SpecEd programs lowered the school averages.  I can't say if that's true or not based on this data, since it wasn't granular enough.  However...

According to Table A.3, <5% of MCPS students were categorized as SpecEd (252 students) and even took the SAT in 2017.  Their average score was 960.  Table A9 shows how those students were distributed across all high schools [although there is a data anomaly where it says 274 SpecEd students took the SAT versus the 252 reported in table A.3].  21 were from WJ.  The average should have been 274 SpecEd Students taking the SAT / 25 High Schools ~= 11.  WJ did have 10 more than the average.  Now, would those 10 SpecEd scores really have changed the overall SAT averages to make a ranking difference?[/quote]

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